Improvement in grain-cradles



l t UNIT-ED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WILLIAM A. Woon AND JOHN o. LoVnLAND, on HoosIok FALLS, NEW Yon-'l`|v|Pnovi-:ivnam' IN GRAlN-CRADLES.

Specification forming,l part of Letters Patent N0. 3,814, dat-edNovember 13, 1844; antedated November 9, 1844. l

To all whom fitimag/ concern:

Beit known that we, WILLIAM A. Woon and JOHN U. LGVELAND, ot' the`village of Hoosick Falls, in the county of Rensselaer and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful improvement on the machine commonlycalled and known as the Grain-Cradle; 7 and we do hereby declare thatthe following is a full and exact description ot' the same,reference'being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ot' thisspecification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the machine.Letter 2 represents where the metallic parts of teeth are joined to thewooden parts ot' teeth. i

The nature of our improvement and invention consists in making the teethof the cradle whole or in part of hollow metal, and when only part ismetallic the metal composes the lower end or extremity of the teeth,being the part that requires the most curve, and is twenty neheslong.The remainder ofthe teeth are composed of wood, and are attached to themetallic parts ot' teeth by entering the tube about three inches, andare seenredfby a wire pin passing transversely through the parts ofteeth, as shown at Figt2 in drawings, the metallic teeth or parts ofteeth being of the usual thickness, or nearly so, ot' the wooden teethheretofore in use.

What We claim as our invention and improvement, and desire to secure blyLetters Patent, is-

The use of said hollow metallic teeth and hollow metallic parts ofteeth, the metal being less liable than wood to relax and straighten.

' Witnesses:

J AsoN BURRELL, ADIN TIIUGER.

